Word: zapped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...enact little immobile dramas of sex, bizarre fantasy, even suicide-just about anything that will make a jaded passer-by stop and look. Explains Candy Pratts, 26-year-old window designer for Bloomingdale's in New York: "You've got to reach anybody who walks by and zap...
...hand with a fastball might be blamed. After all, Vernon Ruhle looks like he'd be out castrating beef cattle for fun if he wasn't a relief pitcher for the Tigers. But the days of beanball wars are over: even the designated hitter rule, which theoretically lets pitchers zap people with impunity (they themselves don't have to bat), hasn't changed that. No, the ball must have slipped; Rice didn't duck back quick enough. He even went to first and came around to score later than inning, and batted two more times before they took...
...David Zap Bowie...
...story ought to have turned wormy by this time from virtually constant exposure. It is, however, still a powerful myth. One good measure of its resiliency is that even when Brooks is lampooning it, the story remains compelling, nearly inviolate. When Gene Wilder's Dr. Frankenstein tries to zap life into a grotesque, inanimate form, the movie goes serious despite itself. The myth is better, more involving than the jokes being made about...
Radio doctoring is roughly akin to political campaigning. The basic principle is to zap a little new life into the ailing station while undermining the competition with every dirty Tuckish trick in the doctor's book of ruses. Bennett has so successfully mastered this technique that he was once voted the radio industry's "Program Director of the Year" for ingeniously one-upping his own strategies...